The exhibit “Of Place and Memory: The Yizkor Book as a Window into a World Destroyed” at the Portland State University Library tells the stories of Eastern European Jews and their communities destroyed in the Holocaust. It is the result of a first-time collaboration between the University Library and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in [...]
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The scholarship of two Portland State University librarians has been honored by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). Bob Schroeder, Education & University Studies Librarian and General Education Instruction Coordinator, and Adriene Lim, formerly Associate University Librarian and Interim University Librarian, each had articles chosen as one of LIRT’s Top 20 articles in 2010 related [...]
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Kimberly Pendell joined Portland State Library as Social Sciences Librarian in October. Kim holds a BA from the University of Oregon and an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin. Before returning to her home state, she worked as Assistant Information Services Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as Volunteer Librarian [...]
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A new open access, peer-reviewed journal is available through Pacific University Library’s repository, CommonKnowledge. The journal is a partnership between Pacific University and Central Washington University. Please feel free to share information about this journal with faculty at your institutions – we hope this will be a great opportunity for undergraduates to have their work [...]
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On September 14, ACRL released “Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report .” Developed for the association by Megan Oakleaf of the iSchool at Syracuse University, this valuable resource reviews the quantitative and qualitative literature, methodologies, and best practices currently in place for demonstrating the value of academic libraries. The full report, along [...]
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The Pacific University Library has partnered with the Pacific University Department of Philosophy to produce a new open access annual journal of student scholarship – Res Cogitans. The journal is hosted on the Library’s repository platform, and the first issue is available now. Papers in Res Cogitans are selected from those presented at the Pacific [...]
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As one of ALA’s 2010 Emerging Leaders, Miriam was asked to post some reflections on blogging for ACRLog. So, of course we wanted to feature it here too!
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Robert Schroeder presented “Being There in Virtual Reference” at the 2010 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit in Troutdale.
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Joan Petit wrote a short article for LIScareer.com “Working Overseas in a School or University Library” (April 2010).
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Joan Petit (PSU) presented on “Blogging at the American University in Cairo,” part of the session Virtual Learning & Training: From Classrooms to Communities, with Meredith Farkas, at Computers in Libraries, Arlington, Virginia, April 13, 2010.
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